Episode 35: Afterlife of a Poster Child

Today we talk about the latest gender clinic closures and “pauses” on pediatric transition services and speculate about what the future holds for the young people who’ve been harmed by these practices. Who’s going to help them? How will they help them? Will anyone be held accountable for harming them? We discuss the case of Avery Jackson, the trans-identified boy who at age nine appeared on the cover of National Geographic’s 2017 “Gender Revolution” issue. Avery, medicalized at 11, is now in his late teens and identifies as nonbinary.

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• Leor’s piece on Meredithe McNamara

• Lisa’s piece on Avery Jackson

• “Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition”

• “I Transitioned My Child - I Regret It”

• NY Times article on blue state closures

• Chameleon’s Substack piece

• Ken Zucker

• My Mom Jayne

• Sandpipers

• Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America

• Kandinsky art

• The End of October